Roorkee Municipal Corporation

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Roorkee Municipal Corporation

रुड़की नगर निगम

Roorkee Nagar Nigam
Unicameral Legislature
Type
Type
Leadership
Anita Agarwal, BJP
since 27 January 2025
Vijay Nath Shukla, PCS
Structure
Seats40
India Roorkee, Uttarakhand Municipal Corporation 2025.svg
Political groups
Government (24)
  •   BJP (24)

Opposition (3)

Others (13)

Elections
First-past-the-post
Last election
23 January 2025
Next election
2030
Meeting place
Nagar Nigam Bhavan, Roorkee
Website
Nagar Nigam Roorkee

The Roorkee Municipal Corporation is the civic body that governs the city of Roorkee in Uttarakhand, India. [1]

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Structure

This corporation consists of 40 wards and is headed by a mayor who presides over a deputy mayor and 39 other corporators representing the wards. The mayor is elected directly through a first-past-the-post voting system and the deputy mayor is elected by the corporators from among their numbers.

List of mayors

S. No.NameTermParty
1Yashpal Rana3 May 20133 May 20185 years, 0 days Independent
Administrator3 May 20182 December 20191 year, 212 days Government of Uttarakhand
2Gaurav Goel3 December 201930 July 20233 years, 241 days Independent
Administrator10 August, 202326 January 20251 year, 169 days Government of Uttarakhand
3Anita Agarwal27 January 2025 Incumbent 4 days Bharatiya Janata Party

Current members

Mayor: Anita Agarwal
Ward NoWard NameName of CorporatorPartyRemarks
1SherpurSonia Devi BSP
2Adarsh NagarSachin Kumar BJP
3SolanipuramDevki Joshi BJP
4KhanjarpurBabita IND
5CBRIPreeti Bhardwaj BJP
6IIT RoorkeeRajan Goyal BJP
7Civil Lines CentralAkash Jain BJP
8Jadugar RoadSatveer Singh BJP
9Northern MohanpuraPratibha Pal BJP
10Southern MohanpuraPramod Pal IND
11Defence ColonyKulbir IND
12Asaf Nagar RoorkeeSachin Chaudhary IND
13Civil Lines SouthNavneet Sharma BJP
14Preet ViharAnurag Tyagi BJP
15PurwawaliNeetu Sharma BJP
16Southern GaneshpurAnkit Chaudhary IND
17SheikhpuriSanjeev Tomar BJP
18Northern GaneshpurKuldeep Tomar BJP
19ShivpuramVeera Devi BJP
20ChavmandiRishu Verma BJP
21Subhash NagarYajur Prajapati BJP
22Krishna NagarAlka Saini BJP
23Salempur RajputanaSarita IND
24Salempur Industrial CentreSapna Dhariwal BJP
25RamnagarPankaj Satija BJP
26Awas VikasRakesh Garg BJP
27MaktulpuriVibha Saini BJP
28Deendayal EastTahir IND
29SaketDheeraj Pal BJP
30Ambar Talab WestCharu Chandra INC
31Ambar Talab EastSeema Verma BJP
32World Bank ColonyShivam Agarwal BJP
33SotSanjeev Rai BJP
34SatiFazul Rahman IND
35MahigranMahzabi INC
36Bharat NagarShahnaz IND
37Purani TehsilNitin Tyagi IND
38SunehraManish Valmiki BJP
39KashipuriMohammad Muntazir IND
40MatlabpurManoj Kumar IND

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References

  1. "Roorkee Municipal Corporation" (PDF). udd.uk.gov.in. Retrieved 10 February 2017.